Disenchantment & Letting Go of Feelings by Direct Knowledge

[Ted]

Hello!

Recently I posted a message that describes the power of contemplation
of impernanent/inconstant characteristic (anicca anupassana) in
feelings, namely one may become a faith-follower, a Dhamma-follower,
or a stream-enterer (with the Stainless Eye). In the other thread,
Developing of Direct Knowledge Is Through Purification of View, nine
knowledges together define Stainless Eye.

For this message another sutta, MN 74, tells us further that 'anicca
anupassana' not only can result in stream-entry, it also can turn a
noble disciple (Venerable Sariputta) into an arahant.
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"A pleasant feeling is inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen,
subject to ending, subject to vanishing, fading, ceasing. A painful
feeling is also inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject
to ending, subject to vanishing, fading, ceasing. A neither-pleasant-
nor-painful feeling is also inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-
arisen, subject to ending, subject to vanishing, fading, ceasing.

"Seeing this, an instructed disciple of the noble ones grows
disenchanted with pleasant feeling, disenchanted with painful feeling,
disenchanted with neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling. Disenchanted,
he grows dispassionate. From dispassion, he is released. With release,
there is the knowledge, 'Released.' He discerns, 'Birth is ended, the
holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this
world.' A monk whose mind is thus released does not take sides with
anyone, does not dispute with anyone. He words things by means of what
is said in the world but without grasping at it."


"Now at that time Ven. Sariputta was sitting behind the Blessed One,
fanning him. The thought occurred to him, "Indeed, it seems that the
Blessed One speaks to us of the abandoning of each of these mental
qualities through direct knowledge. Indeed, it seems that the One
Well-gone speaks to us of the relinquishing of each of these mental
qualities through direct knowledge." As Ven. Sariputta was reflecting
thus, his mind was released from fermentations through not-clinging.
While in LongNails the wanderer there arose the dustless, stainless
Dhamma eye: "Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to
cessation."
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.074.than.html

Best wishes.